All posts by Andy Marken

With everyone trying to figure out what the M&E industry will look like in the years ahead, this year’s NAB should be the most exciting, most chaotic event in the show’s 100 ye... More

When we told our son the internet passed its golden age (50) awhile back, he asked how old folks like his grandpa and us communicated back in the Dark Ages. “You know, before ema... More

When 2022 wound down, theater owners everywhere were saying the movie industry is back. Now they’re moaning that it will be another year before it recovers. We don’t know ho... More

Back when DVDs were first being introduced the industry’s — and undoubtedly content creators’ — biggest concern was making them so they couldn’t be copied. They really wa... More

Despite two years of uncertainty, creatives held their breath, crossed their fingers, and hoped the in-person gatherings at the Sundance Film Festival would set the stage for the r... More

Look, there’s no one who wants to see the big theatrical window and big red-carpet events return than the folks in and around Dalton, Ga. They make 90 percent of the wall-to-wall... More

Covering the metaverse at this year’s CES was difficult. The metaverse is really like a giant iceberg. The stuff you see on the show floor — headgear, glasses, apparel, toy gun... More

Covering the metaverse at this year’s CES was difficult. The metaverse is really like a giant iceberg. The stuff you see on the show floor — headgear, glasses, apparel, toy gun... More

We don’t want to brag but we were active in the Web 3.0 world before folks decided to slap a name on it and say it will be worth $23.3 billion by 2028. Back when we were just ... More

We don’t want to brag but we were active in the Web 3.0 world before folks decided to slap a name on it and say it will be worth $23.3 billion by 2028. Back when we were just ... More

We didn’t cut our TV bundle because it was too expensive. We cut it because we were sick and tired of watching 20 minutes of ads an hour. Well, that’s not entirely true. We ... More

Bigger, badder chips, computers and screens all got their share of lookers and attention at CES; and the eye candy often overshadowed the most important message: we’re doing more... More

The artful master of linguistics and baseball legend Yogi Berra has been quoted as saying, “When you come to a fork in the road, take It!” The problem for the video content ... More

The world of new media (widgets, social apps, sites, services) looks like a beautiful marketing hunting grounds for everyone looking to move consumer/business products and especial... More

For the past three weeks, we’ve had a consistent set of dreams (sometimes nightmares) trying to figure out how the oft-kilter content production and distribution industry is goin... More

This is going to come as a terrible shock to the people who run the content creation, production, and distribution companies, as well as their analysts and stockholders: There are ... More

If you’re tired of the grind, the uncertainty, the ups and downs of the entertainment industry and you’re toying with the idea of bailing on what you loosely call your career, ... More

You probably didn’t notice but movie house operators are telling everyone who will listen that folks of all ages are jamming themselves into theater seats and life is good. ... More

There’s a ton of great content out there, and every streaming service has some. But when you sit down in the evening, which service and what content do you watch? Do you just ... More